The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-05-04
NEWS NOTES.

| The Bank of Engfand's rate OF discount
has been reduced TO TIVE and ene-half per
cent
Breadstuf exports from tae tinted
States during March past. aggregated sl4,-
vs. ss, against sll, ls7, $40 in March, 1856
James Doak & Co.'s, worsted mill. at
Philadelphia, was damaged to the extent of
$4,000 by fire few days agol fully in.
! sured.
Bri9ad,er Genera; Orlando B. Wilcox
has been plated on the retired list on ac-
count of having reached the age of sixty
four years
Mcclellan & Co., bankers OF - Johns,
n. B.. have assigned. with liabilities of
nearly ss0oe eoi assets about the same. The
eeaiaf partner was president of the Mari
time Bank, and if was the suspension of
this bank that caused the failure. All
branches of trade here will be seriously
affected. Many of the depositers we're
widows and orphans,
Second Auditor Day, il is said, viii be
promoted TO the position OF Second Comp
trollef Of the Treasury, TO succeed Judge
| Maynard, recently made assistant secretary
of the treasury
Mr.. Charles s. Sweet, private secretary
b Secretary Endicott, having been elected
secretary of the Chicago, Santa Fe & Cali
fornia railway, has rendered his resigna-
ton, which Secretary Endicott has accepted
in very complimentary letter.
The Treasury Department has refused to
accept trade dollars id payment Of dues.
Although these eoihs are temporarily re-
ceisable IN exchange for standard dollars,
the department says they are deprived by
law of any legal tender quality.
The Interstate commission has decided
hot tarx
railroads from granting reduced rates to
organizations and individuals going to the
National drill and The dedication of the Gar
field statue at Washington next month.
Good & Wagner. successors to Ball q
Goodrich. the Oldest wholesale grocery
house in Milwaukee, Wis, has made an as
signment to B. K Miller, who furnished
bonds in the sum of $4,000. This sum rep
resents the assets: The liabilities are I'M
known.
The Navy Department has been informed
that Pay Clerk Gibson, of the Ossipe, dis
appeared mysteriously on March y, from
the Norfolk navy yard, since which time
nothing has been heard as to his where
abouts. His accounts are all straight He
leaves wife and child in Washington.
The Treasury Department the other day
received from bank in Texas package of
small silver certificates to the value of
$1,000 for redemption. In tying up the pack
age a hole had been punched through each
note and cord passed through The treas
ury returned the notes to the bank with a
statement that such mutilation is illegal.
Senator Charles w. Jones, who is now in
Detroit, will not return to Florida to be
present at the balloting for United States
Senator He has been promising to make
an explanation of his conduct and TO appear
| on the scene of the contest. Now he offers
none. II is thought that he expects dead
lock and that he viii slip through during
the fight.
| It is said bv several members of Plymouth
church that Mr.. Beecher's fancy farm, Bos-
cobel, at Peekskill, is TO be purchased by
Mr.. S. V. White, at the sale which occurs
soon. The place cost Mr.. Beecher 100000
and one OF his grand-Gaughters, daughter
of Colonel II. B. Beecher, win probably oc-
| cupy it. as she is soon to marry Mr.. Whites
| oldest son.
A st. Johns, \. B.. special, says: Capt
ain Scott, commander of the fishery feet,
says that he has been so grossly misrepre-
sented in interviews published in American
papers, that hereafter he will refuse to give
information regarding fishery matters to
any newspaper man. 1t is learned, how
L
| again be commissioned.
The body of the murdered girl at RAILWAY.
Y J.. has been identified as that of Ana
Christine Larsen. Danish girl, who ar,
J rived in New York from Copenhagen March
,, in quest of former lover. Carl Wolf,
with the hope that ne would repair wrong
she asserted he had done her. Wolf has
| disappeared from the farm near Roselle
| \. J.. where he was working, and is being
sought for on the supposition that he is the
murderer.
James S. Delano, formerly of Galesburg,
| Ill, died from an attack of heart disease, a
few days ago, at Mount Pleasant, just out
side Of Washington. He was an old en-
ploye Of the government, having entered
} | the Treasury Department in 1862 and serv-
| ing there until the advent of the present
administration. He began as a clerk and
rose through the different grades until he
became Deputy Second Comptroller, which
Office he held at the time of his retirement
General Sheridan emphatically denies the
report that General Keifer is to be pre-
vented from delivering the Grafton at the
unwilling Of the Garfield statue Genera
Sheridan is president of the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland and the officer il
1 charge of the ceremonies. He says there
Il
committee and the other committees of ar
: raugements, and that there is no DISPOSE
e ton to do otherwise than to allow Mr.
| khifer the usual time and afford him every
e facility and courtesy.
Three hundred shoemalzers formerly bt
longing 10 the Knights of Labor of New
YORK City, have formed a separate unior
| and Will apply for admission to the Fedora
!, ton of Labor. The trouble grows out of
i strike at Hanan's shoe factory. Franz
| CAMPBELL, Hanan's foreman, refused t
j order the strike when told to do so by tn,
d District Assembly. He was threatened
S with expulsion and has now withdrawn
q taking three hundred Of his shopmates will
| him.
= The Canada United States fishery cues
/ ton was considered at Saturdays Cabine
= council A communique from the United
| States government, comprising a precis
statement of the American claims unde
the existing fishery treaties was discussed
1t is understood that the United States
!. whilst opposing no obstacles to the appoint
o ment of a British commission, has n
g Strong desire TO take part IL further cor
ferences on the subject. and is content I
o stand on its rights and rely on the power
!. granted by Congress to deal with any fu
q tire difficulties that may arise, instead o
q looking to Canada or Great Britain for re
dress.
The Clark Manufacturing Compan
builders hardware), Buffalo, n. Y, hav
fled a general assignment, with preference
Of $4,000. Liabilities about $4,000; asset
c not stated.
The tenants of the SINNERS Company a
|, Draperstown, Ireland, are being evicted an
5 many heartrending scenes are being er
r acted. One poor family, in the hope Of keeT